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Scots nurses fear hospital ward shift swaps are spreading coronavirus to patients

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hospitals fear being moved between wards could be helping the spread of coronavirus.It comes after figures revealed 901 patients had caught Covid-19 in hospital, with 218 of them dying of the infection, despite having been in for a separate condition.Nurses say they must stick to their own wards during outbreaks of winter vomiting bugs but they claim the same rules are not being enforced in hospitals with Covid-19.Some have been moved from Covid wards to A&E in the same shift while others have been moved from surgical wards to Covid wards.Now they fear staff movement could be the source of the problem.One senior nurse at Gartnavel Hospital, Glasgow, said: “When there is an outbreak of winter vomiting virus, nurses have to stick to their own.

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